Tag: management education

I am teaching a new course this spring at Central Michigan University. This course, MSA 607 – Program Management in Complex Organizations, expands on traditional project management. The goal here is to understand how, in larger organizations, projects relate to each other and the organization itself. The Project Management Institute,

I am teaching research methods again this fall, this time for Penn State University. I do love teaching research methods, and despite having a busy fall (though not as busy as it could have been), I took Penn State up on the offer. Their approach to research methods, that I

And in other news, I am teaching People and Project Administration at Central Michigan University. It’s a good course with a focus on the people side of project management. But since it is always good, I kick a little agile methodology in at the end. The course is online and

Here’s something interesting. Despite having my work spread all across multiple fields, which I kind of like, I rather want to make sure I keep a connection to my home field. The problem is, I can no longer tell if that is mathematics or public policy. So I teach. Both.

We did Andrew Gelman’s candy weighing demonstration in class on Friday. This was the first time I’ve had a chance to teach sampling in some time and really wanted to do it. These were not traditional statistics students, however. We did this in research methods. So these are students interested

As promised, I’ve posted the syllabus for Foundations of Research Methods in Administration. This course is a generic research methods course, though it is set in the MSA context. As a result, it should look like a research methods course in just about any social science curriculum. One of the

This spring, I will be teaching something a bit different. I will still be teaching mathematics online for UMUC, but I will also be teaching MSA 600 — Foundations of Research Methods in Administration, as part of the Master of Science in Administration (MSA) program at Central Michigan University. This